Part, Question

 8001   2, 113 |               so ought man to ~turn to God as he is ever made just
 8002   2, 113 |            ungodly is brought about by God ~moving man to justice.
 8003   2, 113 |              according to Rm. 4:5. Now God moves everything in its
 8004   2, 113 |                has the use of reason, ~God's motion to justice does
 8005   2, 113 |           infusion of their souls that God moves them to ~justice.
 8006   2, 113 |           would be infused into him by God. Hence it is said in his ~
 8007   2, 113 |               according to James 4:6: "God resisteth the proud and
 8008   2, 113 |                inasmuch as a man knows God by faith. But a man may
 8009   2, 113 |              faith. But a man may know God in other ~ways, viz. by
 8010   2, 113 |                 let us have peace with God."~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[113]
 8011   2, 113 |                man's mind is ~moved by God. Now God moves man's soul
 8012   2, 113 |             mind is ~moved by God. Now God moves man's soul by turning
 8013   2, 113 |                   Thou wilt turn us, O God, and bring us to ~life."
 8014   2, 113 |               by which it is turned to God. Now the first turning to
 8015   2, 113 |               Now the first turning to God ~is by faith, according
 8016   2, 113 |               11:6: "He that cometh to God must believe ~that He is."
 8017   2, 113 |             Now free-will is ~moved to God by being subject to Him;
 8018   2, 113 |       knowledge a man is not turned to God, according ~as He is the
 8019   2, 113 |                purpose of the grace of God." Hence it is clear that
 8020   2, 113 |            that a man may believe that God justifies man through the
 8021   2, 113 |             expect half a pardon ~from God" [*Cap., Sunt. plures: Dist.
 8022   2, 113 |             the human mind is moved by God from the ~state of sin to
 8023   2, 113 |               one, whereby it tends to God's justice; the other ~whereby
 8024   2, 113 |             belongs to charity to love God, so ~likewise, to detest
 8025   2, 113 |             the soul is separated from God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[113] A[
 8026   2, 113 |           free-will's movement towards God and sin; since it is by
 8027   2, 113 |               of the free-will towards God by faith, the movement of
 8028   2, 113 |           whereby the soul is moved by God from a state of sin to a
 8029   2, 113 |              same; for by the same act God bestows grace and ~remits
 8030   2, 113 |           several things, viz. towards God and towards sin, it ~would
 8031   2, 113 |             free-will is moved towards God and ~to detest sin. Hence
 8032   2, 113 |            stated ~(Q[112], A[2]) that God, in order to infuse grace
 8033   2, 113 |        justification of the ungodly by God takes place in an ~instant.~
 8034   2, 113 |              sin, and to draw ~near to God; and this consent takes
 8035   2, 113 |           free-will's movement towards God, since a man detests ~sin,
 8036   2, 113 |           detests ~sin, as contrary to God, to Whom he wishes to cling.
 8037   2, 113 |              detests sin and ~turns to God, even as a body approaches
 8038   2, 113 |            soul from tending freely to God. Now a ~hindrance to movement
 8039   2, 113 |           free-will's movement towards God; ~the third, the free-will'
 8040   2, 113 |                last. Now the motion of God the Mover is the infusion ~
 8041   2, 113 |           free-will's movement towards God; ~the third is the free-will'
 8042   2, 113 |              sin because it is against God, and thus the free-will'
 8043   2, 113 |          free-will's ~movement towards God naturally precedes the free-will'
 8044   2, 113 |                remission of sin regard God Who justifies, hence in
 8045   2, 113 |               nature it moves ~towards God as to its end, before removing
 8046   2, 113 |        justification of the ungodly is God's greatest work?~Aquin.:
 8047   2, 113 |    justification of the ungodly is not God's ~greatest work. For it
 8048   2, 113 |           justification of the ungodly God makes something from something, ~
 8049   2, 113 |    justification of the ungodly is not God's greatest work.~Aquin.:
 8050   2, 113 |           after Pentecost] we say: ~"O God, Who dost show forth Thine
 8051   2, 113 |              in which way ~creation is God's greatest work.~Aquin.:
 8052   2, 113 |               natural things. But when God works in natural things ~
 8053   2, 113 |             bent on evil. Hence, since God in justifying a man moves
 8054   2, 113 |                 as wisdom is a gift of God, so also is justice. Now
 8055   2, 113 |            suddenly obtain wisdom from God without ~study. Therefore
 8056   2, 113 |                should be justified by ~God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[113] A[
 8057   2, 113 |               work that can be done by God alone, is ~miraculous.~Aquin.:
 8058   2, 113 |               made to ~the likeness of God, it is fit to receive God
 8059   2, 113 |              God, it is fit to receive God by grace, as Augustine ~
 8060   2, 113 |              of justification is ~that God moves the soul interiorly
 8061   2, 113 |               that man is converted to God, ~first by an imperfect
 8062   2, 113 |            Epist. Joan. Tract. v). Yet God ~sometimes moves the soul
 8063   2, 113 |                Now no other cause save God can justify the ungodly, ~
 8064   2, 113 |       justification of the ~ungodly by God is not miraculous in this
 8065   2, 113 |              wisdom and knowledge from God by ~his own talent and study.
 8066   2, 113 |              by his own action, but by God's. Hence there is no ~parity.~
 8067   2, 114 |                can merit anything from God?~(2) Whether without grace
 8068   2, 114 |                may merit anything from God?~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[114] A[
 8069   2, 114 |             man can merit nothing from God. For no one, ~it would seem,
 8070   2, 114 |              make sufficient return to God, since yet more is His due, ~
 8071   2, 114 |             man can merit nothing from God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[114] A[
 8072   2, 114 |                man merits nothing from God, by ~what profits himself
 8073   2, 114 |              himself only, and profits God nothing. Now by acting well,
 8074   2, 114 |                or another man, but not God, for it is written (Job ~
 8075   2, 114 |             man can merit nothing from God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[114] A[
 8076   2, 114 |              is a debt due to him. Now God is no one's ~debtor; hence
 8077   2, 114 |               can merit anything ~from God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[114] A[
 8078   2, 114 |              that a man may merit from God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[114] A[
 8079   2, 114 |               it is clear that between God and man there is the greatest ~
 8080   2, 114 |                all man's good is from ~God. Hence there can be no justice
 8081   2, 114 |              equality between man and ~God, but only of a certain proportion,
 8082   2, 114 |           human virtue is in man ~from God. Hence man's merit with
 8083   2, 114 |                 Hence man's merit with God only exists on the presupposition
 8084   2, 114 |               so that man obtains from God, as a reward of his ~operation,
 8085   2, 114 |                of his ~operation, what God gave him the power of operation
 8086   2, 114 |           which they ~were ordained by God; differently, indeed, since
 8087   2, 114 |                Para. 1/1 ~Reply OBJ 2: God seeks from our goods not
 8088   2, 114 |              Him. ~Hence we merit from God, not that by our works anything
 8089   2, 114 |                it does not follow that God is ~made our debtor simply,
 8090   2, 114 |             life. ~For man merits from God what he is divinely ordained
 8091   2, 114 |             received ~fewer gifts from God, than he who has gratuitous
 8092   2, 114 |              are more meritorious with God. And thus if ~he who has
 8093   2, 114 |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God's mercy and liberality infinitely
 8094   2, 114 |               Rm. 6:23): "The grace of God, life ~everlasting."~Aquin.:
 8095   2, 114 |             sin is an ~offense against God, excluding us from eternal
 8096   2, 114 |             first he be ~reconciled to God, through his sin being forgiven,
 8097   2, 114 |                Para. 1/1 ~Reply OBJ 1: God ordained human nature to
 8098   2, 114 |              the case is ~different in God and in man. For a man receives
 8099   2, 114 |              power of ~well-doing from God, and not from man. Hence
 8100   2, 114 |                can merit nothing from ~God except by His gift, which
 8101   2, 114 |              what he has received from God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[114] A[
 8102   2, 114 |                is similar with man and God, since one man cannot merit
 8103   2, 114 |                Rm. 6:23, "The grace of God, life everlasting," a ~gloss
 8104   2, 114 |         preferred to say 'The grace of God, life ~everlasting,' that
 8105   2, 114 |                  that we may know that God leads us to life everlasting
 8106   2, 114 |              everlasting is granted by God, in ~accordance with the
 8107   2, 114 |                a man does what he can, God should reward him according
 8108   2, 114 |                 is adopted as a son of God, to whom the inheritance
 8109   2, 114 |        reaching everlasting life, viz. God's mercy. But our merit is
 8110   2, 114 |              the manifest knowledge of God, according ~to Jn. 17:3: "
 8111   2, 114 |                only ~true" and living "God." Hence the merit of eternal
 8112   2, 114 |          consists in ~the enjoyment of God. Now the human mind's movement
 8113   2, 114 |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God gives grace only to the
 8114   2, 114 |              his master's service. Now God is much more bountiful than
 8115   2, 114 |           grace already ~received from God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[114] A[
 8116   2, 114 |       consummation to be granted us by God; and this he here retracts.
 8117   2, 114 |       beginning of faith is in us from God, the first act must flow
 8118   2, 114 |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God gives grace to none but
 8119   2, 114 |              personal faith worth with God, Who set such a price on ~
 8120   2, 114 |             they had ~great merit with God. Hence it seems that no
 8121   2, 114 |            makes good use of his power God should by His ~super-excellent
 8122   2, 114 |             each one of us is moved by God to reach life everlasting ~
 8123   2, 114 |              Christ's soul is moved by God through grace, not only
 8124   2, 114 |                a man ~in grace fulfils God's will, and it is congruous
 8125   2, 114 |          harmony with ~friendship that God should fulfil man's desire
 8126   2, 114 |                a man may justly ask of God, he may justly merit. Now ~
 8127   2, 114 |             more justly be besought of God than to be restored after
 8128   2, 114 |                afterwards obtains from God, whereby he is restored,
 8129   2, 114 |              infallibly ~receives from God, unless hindered by subsequent
 8130   2, 114 |           perseverance by asking it of God; otherwise it would be ~
 8131   2, 114 |               be ~useless to ask it of God in the petitions of the
 8132   2, 114 |               we merit, we obtain from God, unless it is ~hindered
 8133   2, 114 |            were to merit perseverance, God would not permit him to
 8134   2, 114 |             two ways of obtaining from God perseverance in good: ~first,
 8135   2, 114 |                s movement directed to ~God the mover, falls under human
 8136   2, 114 |           principle of all merit. ~Now God freely bestows the good
 8137   2, 114 |                we do not merit, since ~God hears sinners who beseech
 8138   2, 114 |              11:31, ~"Now we know that God doth not hear sinners,"
 8139   2, 114 |                the publican to say: "O God, be merciful to me a ~sinner,"
 8140   2, 114 |                too may we impetrate of God in prayer the grace ~of
 8141   2, 114 |                fall under merit, which God bestows ~on anyone for a
 8142   2, 114 |                for a service done. But God sometimes bestows temporal
 8143   2, 114 |           because ~the midwives feared God, He built them houses";
 8144   2, 114 |               sin some are punished by God with temporal ~punishments,
 8145   2, 114 |                for men to adhere to my God") and consequently ~what
 8146   2, 114 |            after the first ~grace. For God gives men, both just and
 8147   2, 114 |           inasmuch as men are moved by God to do temporal ~works, in
 8148   2, 114 |         temporal ~works, in which with God's help they reach their
 8149   2, 114 |            Tyre as if wishing to serve God, but rather in order to
 8150   2, 1   |               charity we love not only God, who is the sovereign ~Good,
 8151   2, 1   |             because it is revealed by ~God. Hence the mean on which
 8152   2, 1   |                 they ~include not only God, but also many other things,
 8153   2, 1   |              bearing some relation to ~God, in as much as, to wit,
 8154   2, 1   |               towards the enjoyment of God. ~Consequently from this
 8155   2, 1   |           faith except in ~relation to God, even as the object of the
 8156   2, 1   |                them we are directed to God, and in as much as we assent
 8157   2, 1   |             our neighbor on account of God, so that ~its object, properly
 8158   2, 1   |          object, properly speaking, is God, as we shall show further
 8159   2, 1   |               not ~stated therein that God is almighty, but: "I believe
 8160   2, 1   |           almighty, but: "I believe in God . . . ~almighty." Therefore
 8161   2, 1   |             after the time of Abraham, God might not have ~taken flesh,
 8162   2, 1   |             belongs to charity to love God, wherever He may be; so ~
 8163   2, 1   |                not to charity, whether God be in the individual whom
 8164   2, 1   |           individual whom we ~love for God's sake.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
 8165   2, 1   |                 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: That "God would not take flesh," considered
 8166   2, 1   |              in so far as it stands in God's ~foreknowledge, it has
 8167   2, 1   |                and believing Him to be God, he ~made profession of
 8168   2, 1   |                saying: "My Lord and my God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[1] A[
 8169   2, 1   |                 Existence and Unity of God, and so forth. Therefore
 8170   2, 1   |           indivisible truth concerning God, exacting ~[arctans] our
 8171   2, 1   |        analysis, since things which in God are one, are manifold in
 8172   2, 1   |              unseen in connection with God, as stated ~above (A[4]).
 8173   2, 1   |              difficulty in seeing that God suffered, ~and another in
 8174   2, 1   |                 of Persons in Almighty God [*The Leonine Edition reads:
 8175   2, 1   |            Persons, the omnipotence of God, etc.], the mystery of Christ'
 8176   2, 1   |               since "he that cometh to God ~must believe that He is,"
 8177   2, 1   |               is impossible to please ~God," as the Apostle declares (
 8178   2, 1   |             but was delivered to us by God, as stated in Eph. 2:8: ~"
 8179   2, 1   |               2:8: ~"It is the gift of God." Since then there can be
 8180   2, 1   |               no lack of knowledge in ~God, it seems that knowledge
 8181   2, 1   |              matters of faith, such as God's existence, and His ~providence
 8182   2, 1   |                11: "He that ~cometh to God, must believe that He is,
 8183   2, 1   |             Him." For the existence of God includes all that we believe
 8184   2, 1   |                we believe to exist ~in God eternally, and in these
 8185   2, 1   |        includes all those things which God dispenses in time, for ~
 8186   2, 1   |           Moses (Ex. 6:2,3): "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
 8187   2, 1   |                the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of ~Jacob [*
 8188   2, 1   |         Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of ~Jacob [*Vulg.: 'I am
 8189   2, 1   |                manifestation of faith, God is the active cause, having ~
 8190   2, 1   |                receiving the influx of God's action. Hence, among men,
 8191   2, 1   |        demonstration that there is one God; hence the ~Philosopher
 8192   2, 1   |          Therefore that "there is one ~God" should not be set down
 8193   2, 1   |                that we should believe ~God to be almighty, so is it
 8194   2, 1   |              should have ~been made of God's wisdom and providence,
 8195   2, 1   |               the glory of the sons of God, according to ~Rm. 5:2.
 8196   2, 1   |              know Thee, the . . . true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou
 8197   2, 1   |              we hold many truths about God, which the ~philosophers
 8198   2, 1   |                article of the unity of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[1] A[8]
 8199   2, 1   |             will and knowledge. Hence ~God's omnipotence includes,
 8200   2, 1   |             thus it is included ~under God's omnipotence, like all
 8201   2, 1   |        miracles which are ascribed to ~God's almighty power.~Aquin.:
 8202   2, 1   |               competent ~to believe in God, but only those who have
 8203   2, 1   |              words: "I ~believe in one God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[1] A[
 8204   2, 1   |              passage, ~"You believe in God, believe also in Me" (Jn.
 8205   2, 1   |           speak only of believing 'in' God." Since then the ~Catholic
 8206   2, 1   |              11:6), "he that cometh to God, ~must believe that He is."
 8207   2, 2   |              xv, 16) that "the Son of ~God is not called the Thought,
 8208   2, 2   |               Thought, but the Word of God. When our thought ~realizes
 8209   2, 2   |               word. ~Hence the Word of God must be understood without
 8210   2, 2   |               thinking on the part ~of God, for there is nothing there
 8211   2, 2   |           things have been ~uttered by God and confirmed by miracles.~
 8212   2, 2   |             distinguished as believing God, ~believing in a God and
 8213   2, 2   |         believing God, ~believing in a God and believing in God?~Aquin.:
 8214   2, 2   |              in a God and believing in God?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[2] A[2]
 8215   2, 2   |            distinguished ~as believing God, believing in a God, and
 8216   2, 2   |          believing God, believing in a God, and believing in God. For
 8217   2, 2   |                a God, and believing in God. For one habit ~has but
 8218   2, 2   |              of faith. Now "to believe God" is ~common to all acts
 8219   2, 2   |                be said to believe in a God. ~Therefore it should not
 8220   2, 2   |               Therefore "to believe in God," which implies ~movement
 8221   2, 2   |             faith is ~"to believe in a God"; because, as stated above (
 8222   2, 2   |              much as it is referred to God. The ~other is the formal
 8223   2, 2   |               of ~faith is "to believe God," since, as stated above (
 8224   2, 2   |                faith is "to believe in God." For the ~First Truth is
 8225   2, 2   |               be said "to believe in a God" as we ~understand it in
 8226   2, 2   |              they do not believe ~that God exists under the conditions
 8227   2, 2   |               truly imply believe in a God, since, as the Philosopher
 8228   2, 2   |                faith is "to believe in God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[2] A[
 8229   2, 2   |               man's salvation rests on God, according to Ps. 36:39: ~"
 8230   2, 2   |              the invisible ~things" of God "are clearly seen, being
 8231   2, 2   |               is ~impossible to please God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[2] A[
 8232   2, 2   |            immediately ~subordinate to God, since other creatures do
 8233   2, 2   |               a supernatural vision of God: to which vision man cannot
 8234   2, 2   |                unless ~he be taught by God, according to Jn. 6:45: "
 8235   2, 2   |              must first of all believe God, as a disciple believes
 8236   2, 2   |              the ~light of faith which God bestows on him, a man assents
 8237   2, 2   |               the invisible things of ~God in a higher way than natural
 8238   2, 2   |           reason does in proceeding to God from ~His creatures. Hence
 8239   2, 2   |              nothing is superfluous in God's works, much ~less even
 8240   2, 2   |              necessary to believe that God is one and ~incorporeal:
 8241   2, 2   |              to prove the existence of God, is the last of ~all to
 8242   2, 2   |             arrive at the knowledge of God. The second reason is, in
 8243   2, 2   |           order that the ~knowledge of God may be more general. For
 8244   2, 2   |          deprived of ~the knowledge of God, unless Divine things were
 8245   2, 2   |         deficient in things concerning God. A ~sign of this is that
 8246   2, 2   |               might ~have knowledge of God, free of doubt and uncertainty,
 8247   2, 2   |               to ~them, as it were, by God Himself Who cannot lie.~
 8248   2, 2   |             just as we are directed to God by faith, so are we by ~
 8249   2, 2   |              ready to believe whatever God proposes to be believed.~
 8250   2, 2   |             ready to believe ~whatever God may propose, without his
 8251   2, 2   |              11:6): "He that cometh to God, must ~believe that He is,
 8252   2, 2   |               all things delivered by ~God to us in Holy Writ, for
 8253   2, 2   |                grace, such as to ~love God and our neighbor, and likewise
 8254   2, 2   |            objects of charity, namely, God and our ~neighbor. The objection
 8255   2, 2   |                by the one Mediator ~of God and men, Jesus Christ."~
 8256   2, 2   |        believed them to be ordained by God in reference to Christ's
 8257   2, 2   |              mystery of the Kingdom of God was not entirely hidden ~
 8258   2, 2   |               that this is the ~Son of God" (Jn. 1:34). Hence he did
 8259   2, 2   |              39): ~"Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him who taketh away
 8260   2, 2   |               since they believed that God would ~deliver mankind in
 8261   2, 2   |                6): "He that ~cometh to God must believe that He is,
 8262   2, 2   |               by which Thou art called God, but the name whereby Thou
 8263   2, 2   |              that He made this world, ~God is known to all nations;
 8264   2, 2   |            together ~with false gods, 'God is known in Judea'; but,
 8265   2, 2   |               to believe explicitly of God is ~the object of heavenly
 8266   2, 2   |             can be understood to be in God, without any ~distinction
 8267   2, 2   |               includes that the Son of God took flesh; that He renewed
 8268   2, 2   |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God's sovereign goodness as
 8269   2, 2   |         free-will moved with grace ~by God. Therefore every human act
 8270   2, 2   |       free-will, if it be ~referred to God, can be meritorious. Now
 8271   2, 2   |            will ~moved by the grace of God, so that it is subject to
 8272   2, 2   |              free-will in ~relation to God; and consequently the act
 8273   2, 2   |         charity, i.e. to the ~honor of God or the good of our neighbor.
 8274   2, 2   |              faith on the authority of God ~alone, although he may
 8275   2, 2   |               e.g. of the existence of God, the merit of his faith
 8276   2, 3   |               to give outward honor to God, which is the end of ~"latria."
 8277   2, 3   |         gentiles and to the Church of ~God." Now confession of faith
 8278   2, 3   |                do so, we would deprive God of due honor, or ~our neighbor
 8279   2, 3   |          charity, which is the love of God and our ~neighbor. Consequently
 8280   2, 3   |            neighbor. Consequently when God's honor and our neighbor'
 8281   2, 3   |               being united by faith to God's truth, ~but ought to confess
 8282   2, 4   |        proceeds from ~the will obeying God. Therefore it seems that
 8283   2, 4   |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God's grace, by its advent,
 8284   2, 4   |                is ~infused into him by God. But it seems unfitting
 8285   2, 4   |               deprive man of a gift of God by coming to him, and that
 8286   2, 4   |                him, and that a gift of God should be ~infused into
 8287   2, 4   |                 FS, Q[109], A[9]) that God is always working man's ~
 8288   2, 4   |            just as faith is a gift ~of God according to Eph. 2:8, so
 8289   2, 4   |          knowledge are numbered ~among God's gifts according to Is.
 8290   2, 4   |             moved, out of obedience to God, to assent to matters of ~
 8291   2, 4   |         natural knowledge cannot reach God ~as the object of heavenly
 8292   2, 4   |      inclination of the will to fulfil God's commandments. In this
 8293   2, 4   |                 whereby man knows that God is his superior, ~Whom he
 8294   2, 4   |                the will cannot tend to God with perfect love, unless
 8295   2, 4   |                is indeed, the word of ~God." Now nothing is more certain
 8296   2, 4   |               certain than the word of God. Therefore science ~is not
 8297   2, 4   |              about what he ~hears from God, Who cannot be deceived,
 8298   2, 4   |              short of the certitude of God's word, on ~which faith
 8299   2, 5   |               10) that "man cannot see God or things that are ~in God,
 8300   2, 5   |             God or things that are ~in God, because he closes his eyes
 8301   2, 5   |               believers seek an absent God by faith, but by seeing
 8302   2, 5   |              11:6): "He that cometh to God, must ~believe." Now the
 8303   2, 5   |                was one of approach to ~God. Therefore they had need
 8304   2, 5   |          possess the happiness whereby God is seen in His Essence,
 8305   2, 5   |                natural knowledge about God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[5] A[1]
 8306   2, 5   |              all who have knowledge of God, by adhering to the First
 8307   2, 5   |              they approached nearer to God, and had manifest ~knowledge
 8308   2, 5   |            that they sought an absent ~God as we seek Him: since by
 8309   2, 5   |          outwardly, but there was from God inspiring inwardly: thus ~
 8310   2, 5   |               will hear what the ~Lord God will speak in me."~Aquin.:
 8311   2, 5   |               man wishes to believe in God. Since then ~no deliberate
 8312   2, 5   |                  for it is the gift of God." ~Now, according to a gloss
 8313   2, 5   |           while preaching the word ~of God, were to foretell something,
 8314   2, 5   |              to recognize clearly that God, Who lieth not, was speaking,
 8315   2, 5   |         teaching of the Church is from God, although they do ~not see
 8316   2, 5   |             there are three Persons in God, and so forth.~Aquin.: SMT
 8317   2, 5   |             Further, just as man obeys God in believing the articles
 8318   2, 5   |                is perfect obedience to God, ~in which a man fails whenever
 8319   2, 6   |           faith is infused into man by God?~(2) Whether lifeless faith
 8320   2, 6   |            lifeless faith is a gift of God?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[6] A[1]
 8321   2, 6   |           faith is infused into man by God?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[6] A[1]
 8322   2, 6   |                not infused into man by God. For ~Augustine says (De
 8323   2, 6   |                  for it is the gift of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[6] A[
 8324   2, 6   |              faith must needs be ~from God. Because those things which
 8325   2, 6   |                man's knowledge, unless God reveal them. To ~some, indeed,
 8326   2, 6   |           indeed, they are revealed by God immediately, as those things
 8327   2, 6   |             some they are ~proposed by God in sending preachers of
 8328   2, 6   |         consummation of faith is from ~God, Who proposes to us the
 8329   2, 6   |              him inwardly; and this is God. Therefore faith, as regards
 8330   2, 6   |            chief act of faith, is from God moving man inwardly ~by
 8331   2, 6   |                needs to be prepared by God with grace, in order that
 8332   2, 6   |            lifeless faith is a gift of God?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[6] A[2]
 8333   2, 6   |        lifeless faith is not a gift of God. For it is ~written (Dt.
 8334   2, 6   |               32:4) that "the works of God are perfect." Now lifeless ~
 8335   2, 6   |        Therefore it is not the work of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[6] A[2]
 8336   2, 6   |        deformed act of sin is not from God, as ~stated above (FS, Q[
 8337   2, 6   |                is lifeless faith ~from God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[6] A[2]
 8338   2, 6   |             OBJ 3: Further, whomsoever God heals, He heals wholly:
 8339   2, 6   |        Therefore whoever receives from God the gift of faith, is at
 8340   2, 6   |               faith alone is a gift of God: and consequently ~lifeless
 8341   2, 6   |             lifeless faith is not from God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[6] A[2]
 8342   2, 6   |            lacks ~charity is a gift of God." Now this is lifeless faith.
 8343   2, 6   |           lifeless ~faith is a gift of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[6] A[2]
 8344   2, 6   |        strictly so called: and this is God, as ~stated above (A[1]).
 8345   2, 6   |           lifeless faith is a gift ~of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[6] A[2]
 8346   2, 6   |               Hence we cannot say that God is the cause of a deformed ~
 8347   2, 6   |              deformed act is not ~from God, so neither is a false faith;
 8348   2, 6   |              as lifeless faith is from God, ~so too, acts that are
 8349   2, 6   |              case in sinners, are from God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[6] A[2]
 8350   2, 6   |                who receives faith from God without charity, is healed ~
 8351   2, 6   |                one act of sin, through God causing him thus to desist,
 8352   2, 6   |             sometimes it is granted by God to a man to believe, and
 8353   2, 7   |               dreads to be punished by God; ~and this is servile fear.~
 8354   2, 7   |           dreads to be separated ~from God, or whereby one shrinks
 8355   2, 7   |              faith makes us appreciate God as an ~unfathomable and
 8356   2, 7   |                it makes man adhere ~to God and to be subject to Him
 8357   2, 7   |               1/1~Reply OBJ 1: Fear of God cannot altogether precede
 8358   2, 7   |               submits his intellect to God, so as to ~believe in all
 8359   2, 7   |             appreciate the prize which God awards to the ~just, while
 8360   2, 7   |                either not to submit to God, or ~to be separated from
 8361   2, 7   |               suffer penal evils from ~God: in this way faith can be
 8362   2, 7   |               which is above ~it, viz. God. The first beginning of
 8363   2, 7   |              since "he ~that cometh to God must believe that He is,"
 8364   2, 8   |               to three ~Persons in one God, and the incarnation of
 8365   2, 8   |                 and the incarnation of God the Son; whereas other ~
 8366   2, 8   |              heart, for they shall see God," does not respond to the
 8367   2, 8   |              of life. But the sight of God does not belong to the present
 8368   2, 8   |                comprises the sight ~of God, does not respond to the
 8369   2, 8   |              reward, viz. the sight of God, as stated above (FS, Q[
 8370   2, 8   |               a disposition to seeing ~God, and consists in the heart
 8371   2, 8   |             complement to the sight of God; such is the cleanness of
 8372   2, 8   |              are ~proposed to it about God, no longer by way of corporeal
 8373   2, 8   |                3/4~Again, the sight of God is twofold. One is perfect,
 8374   2, 8   |                One is perfect, whereby God's ~Essence is seen: the
 8375   2, 8   |                though we see not what ~God is, yet we see what He is
 8376   2, 8   |             more perfectly do we ~know God in this life, the more we
 8377   2, 8   |               Each of these visions of God belongs to the gift of ~
 8378   2, 8   |              to ~the perfect vision of God. Moreover the gifts both
 8379   2, 9   |                 On the ~other hand, in God, there is a sure judgment
 8380   2, 9   |                Q[14], ~A[7]; wherefore God's knowledge is not discursive,
 8381   2, 9   |                the invisible things of God . . ~. are clearly seen,
 8382   2, 9   |             absolutely highest, namely God. Hence the knowledge of
 8383   2, 9   |             which unites man's mind to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[9] A[2]
 8384   2, 9   |          Accordingly, since man ~knows God through His creatures, this
 8385   2, 9   |               that man's aversion from God is ~occasioned, according
 8386   2, 9   |        creatures, but in contemplating God. But man's beatitude does ~
 8387   2, 10  |         trodden under foot ~the Son of God, and hath esteemed the blood
 8388   2, 10  |              formally in aversion from God, as ~stated above (FS, Q[
 8389   2, 10  |            more a sin ~severs man from God, the graver it is. Now man
 8390   2, 10  |              than ever ~separated from God by unbelief, because he
 8391   2, 10  |                even true knowledge of ~God: and by false knowledge
 8392   2, 10  |              and by false knowledge of God, man does not approach Him,
 8393   2, 10  |             who has a false opinion of God, to know Him ~in any way
 8394   2, 10  |           object of his opinion is not God. ~Therefore it is clear
 8395   2, 10  |                alms were acceptable to God. Therefore not every ~action
 8396   2, 10  |                have been acceptable to God, whom ~none can please without
 8397   2, 10  |                inordinate relations to God, so too, faith is one virtue
 8398   2, 10  |              is belief in the unity of God, from which the heathens
 8399   2, 10  |             Christ from the Person ~of God the Son. Now the heathens
 8400   2, 10  |                Testament as being from God, and ~there is some good
 8401   2, 10  |               1/1~OBJ 4: It is said in God's person (Ezech. 18:32 [*
 8402   2, 10  |               enter into the house of ~God, i.e. into Holy Church,
 8403   2, 10  |              who has the authority of ~God: since unbelievers in virtue
 8404   2, 10  |             converted into children of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[10] A[
 8405   2, 10  |               imitate it. Now although God is all-powerful and supremely ~
 8406   2, 10  |               to Mt. 19:6: "What . . . God hath joined together let
 8407   2, 10  |              every man belongs more to God, from Whom he has his ~soul,
 8408   2, 10  |           parents, and ~consecrated to God in Baptism.~Aquin.: SMT
 8409   2, 10  |              OBJ 4: Man is directed to God by his reason, whereby he
 8410   2, 10  |              of things, is directed to God by its parents' reason,
 8411   2, 10  |               all ~matters relating to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[10] A[
 8412   2, 11  |             the truth, if peradventure God ~may give them repentance
 8413   2, 11  |              sentence of the Church is God's sentence, ~according to
 8414   2, 11  |         because it is the judgment of ~God." Therefore even those who
 8415   2, 11  |              Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: In God's tribunal, those who return
 8416   2, 11  |              always received, ~because God is a searcher of hearts,
 8417   2, 11  |              the Church cannot imitate God in this, for she presumes ~
 8418   2, 11  |              one's neighbor or against God, for it is not left to ~
 8419   2, 11  |         prescribes limits according as God's honor or our neighbor'
 8420   2, 12  |            Douay: 'to fall off'] from ~God," and further on, (Ecclus.
 8421   2, 12  |             denotes a backsliding from God. This may happen ~in various
 8422   2, 12  |              of union between man and ~God. For, in the first place,
 8423   2, 12  |                place, man is united to God by faith; secondly, by ~
 8424   2, 12  |                man may apostatize from God, by withdrawing from the ~
 8425   2, 12  |               may also apostatize from God, by rebelling in ~his mind
 8426   2, 12  |             may still remain united to God by faith.~Aquin.: SMT SS
 8427   2, 12  |                seems to turn away from God ~altogether: and consequently,
 8428   2, 12  |              will in rebellion against God's commandments, an ~act
 8429   2, 12  |               is "impossible to please God"; when once ~faith is removed,
 8430   2, 12  |                 a man turns away ~from God, so does every sin. Consequently
 8431   2, 12  |              the faith severs man from God altogether, as ~stated above (
 8432   2, 12  |           pertains to ill-will against God rather than to ~unbelief.
 8433   2, 12  |             which is committed against God or the saints." ~But confession
 8434   2, 12  |              than those ~pertaining to God, Who is the object of faith.
 8435   2, 12  |               unfitting is affirmed of God; the ~second is when something
 8436   2, 12  |              when ~something proper to God is ascribed to a creature,
 8437   2, 12  |            blasphemy is not only about God, but also about His creatures.
 8438   2, 12  |                the ~object of faith is God. Therefore blasphemy is
 8439   2, 12  |           goodness, especially that of God. Now God, as Dionysius ~
 8440   2, 12  |            especially that of God. Now God, as Dionysius ~says (Div.
 8441   2, 12  |                 Hence whatever ~befits God, pertains to His goodness,
 8442   2, 12  |              denies anything befitting God, or affirms ~anything unbefitting
 8443   2, 12  |               the other hand, faith in God is perfected by love of
 8444   2, 12  |                 He that speaks against God, with the intention of reviling ~
 8445   2, 12  |                hinder the honor due to God, and this ~is perfect blasphemy.~
 8446   2, 12  |               1/1~Reply OBJ 2: Even as God is praised in His saints,
 8447   2, 12  |               given to the works which God does in His saints, so does
 8448   2, 12  |              as a consequence, against God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[13] A[
 8449   2, 12  |                deny ~fitting things of God, differ merely as affirmation
 8450   2, 12  |              things that are proper to God, seems to amount to ~the
 8451   2, 12  |           since whatever is ~proper to God is God Himself: and to ascribe
 8452   2, 12  |          whatever is ~proper to God is God Himself: and to ascribe
 8453   2, 12  |               that which is ~proper to God, is to assert that God is
 8454   2, 12  |              to God, is to assert that God is the same as a creature.~
 8455   2, 12  |            principle is the charity of God. Therefore whatever things
 8456   2, 12  |              words: "I am the Lord thy God," etc. (Ex. ~20:1). Or else,
 8457   2, 12  |                take the ~name of . . . God in vain" (Ex. 20:7). Because
 8458   2, 12  |         asserts something ~false about God, takes His name in vain
 8459   2, 12  |               he who uses the ~name of God in confirmation of a falsehood.~
 8460   2, 12  |               which can do no harm to ~God. Therefore the sin of murder
 8461   2, 12  |         Further, a perjurer calls upon God to witness to a falsehood,
 8462   2, 12  |              thus seems to assert that God is false. But not every
 8463   2, 12  |            goes so ~far as to say that God is false. Therefore perjury
 8464   2, 12  |            committed ~directly against God, is more grave than murder,
 8465   2, 12  |                 than blasphemy does to God. Since, however, the ~gravity
 8466   2, 12  |       blasphemer intends to do harm to God's honor, ~absolutely speaking,
 8467   2, 12  |            think something false about God, as the ~blasphemer does:
 8468   2, 12  |          blasphemer does: but he calls God to witness to a falsehood,
 8469   2, 12  |          falsehood, not that he ~deems God a false witness, but in
 8470   2, 12  |             the hope, as it were, that God will not ~testify to the
 8471   2, 12  |            they blasphemed the name of God, Who hath power over ~these
 8472   2, 12  |            nevertheless ~complain that God is so powerful as to torture
 8473   2, 12  |              which is turned away from God's justice, since ~they love
 8474   2, 12  |      resurrection they will ~blaspheme God with the tongue, even as
 8475   2, 13  |               as He is also the Son of God, i.e. the "power of God
 8476   2, 13  |                God, i.e. the "power of God and the ~wisdom of God" (
 8477   2, 13  |              of God and the ~wisdom of God" (1 Cor. 1:24). Wherefore,
 8478   2, 13  |                ii, D, 43). For to deny God's justice ~or mercy belongs
 8479   2, 13  |              by despair, a man rejects God's mercy, ~and by presumption,
 8480   2, 13  |             without merits ~presume on God's mercy, sin against the
 8481   2, 13  |            revealed, or ~ungrateful to God, by Whose inspiration the
 8482   2, 13  |              are either on the part of God's judgment, or on the part
 8483   2, 13  |                14] A[2] Body Para. 2/3~God's gifts whereby we are withdrawn
 8484   2, 13  |                not in ~disbelieving in God's justice and mercy, but
 8485   2, 13  |              the soul being healed ~by God. But "no disease is incurable
 8486   2, 13  |            idol the favors bestowed by God Who ~had brought them out
 8487   2, 13  |            food and medicine, although God ~is able to cure such a
 8488   2, 13  |             all-powerful and ~merciful God, Who, sometimes, by a miracle,
 8489   2, 13  |              in this life, considering God's ~omnipotence and mercy.
 8490   2, 13  |                question on the part of God's ~omnipotence, not on that
 8491   2, 13  |              is unpardonable, although God can pardon it.~Aquin.: SMT
 8492   2, 13  |              It is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden to make a ~poor
 8493   2, 14  |             evil, it could not be from God, were it not a ~punishment.
 8494   2, 14  |              in his Soliloquies i, 1, "God Who didst wish none but
 8495   2, 14  |            abstinence and continency, "God gave knowledge and understanding
 8496   2, 15  |                is impossible to please God." ~Therefore there was very
 8497   2, 15  |                 14:1: ~"You believe in God; believe also in Me." Therefore
 8498   2, 15  |              away from their faith in ~God. Therefore precepts of faith
 8499   2, 15  |          primary ~subjection of man to God is by faith, according to
 8500   2, 15  |              11:6: "He that ~cometh to God, must believe that He is."